Are FIFOs supported in modern windowsen? The help() for connections that discusses fifos suggests that they are not
> (They do work on most Unix platforms, and all but 'fifo' on > Windows.) and that they are > On platforms where 'vsnprintf' does not return the needed length of > output (e.g., Windows) there is a 100,000 character output limit on > the length of line for 'fifo', 'gzfile' and 'bzfile' connections: > longer lines will be truncated with a warning. and the discussions about FIFO support I've found online talk about support existing on "NT descendants" but not '98 or ME. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/4458/match=fifo+windows My apologies for not just installing a windows box and trying it; I don't own any licenses at the moment, and I kind of like it that way. :) It seemed like a doc clarification was in order, whichever way it went. - Allen S. Rout ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
